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My advice to you would be to go back to GP and ask for a referral to the diabetic consultants at your local hospital. I took on the good advice from above and was able to secure the echo pen and got the referral to hospital but I had to wait 2 w for the drs appt to get to ask that question then...

Thanks for all the responses, I called the hospital today they confirmed I’ve not seen them since 2015 but that all their referrals come from the gps only so I need to get back to them to submit a request. Calling the drs today got me a telephone discussion with a gp in 2 weeks. To say I’m...

Thanks for advice, yes I’ve done the carb counting course. X

Striking that balance is key, your right there appears to be limited options and a persons reaction to those options change daily so finding something that is workable and achievable (because we all want to reach those goals) with help is a good place to start, I guess I have been finding it...

Thanks for your reply...yes you are right I need the input of a specialist here about next steps. x

Thanks for the words of encouragement....I am ringing them tomorrow! x

Thanks for the reply I will definitely investigate the echo pen as I feel that would really help me especially situations like now where I would need .5 of novorapid for my 10g CHO I’ve just had for dinner but I can only do 1 unit so I either don’t do it or eat more and inject 1 unit. I try to...

Hi fellow diabetics I’ve just had my latest hba1c result and while it’s good and much better it’s not as good as I thought it might’ve been yet I feel I don’t have any options to take with it next. At this point last year my hba1c was the highest it had ever been 62/7.8%, this brought me to...